We've only got until tomorrow to find out what
the real deal is with Larry Page's more or less expected keynote here at CES, but the rumor mill's been a-churnin' over
desirabilities possibilities. The
Google PC thing came and went,
officially rebuked by Google
themselves, but latest on the chopping block is that G will be announcing a pay-per-download video service to take
on Apple's now-misnamed iTunes Music Store (with video, as we like to say). Ars is reporting that they've lined up
content partnerships with CBS and the NBA, and they may be distributing video content via RealPlayer, but it's all
whistles to us until the man himself gets on stage and tells us what's what.
[Thanks,
Dave]
posted Jan 5th 2006 2:15PM
...and in the next episode, we will finally get to watch Google jump the shark.
If they're using RealPlayer, then they can keep it. I'm not even remotely interested in using anything that uses that worthless crap.
So Google has CBS and the NBA, Apple has NBC/Universal, ABC/Disney, and college football, and various cable outfits have their own offerings which will no doubt eventually go pay-for-download or at least ad-ware. Why does this just seem like another content mess? Unless everyone plays nice for everyone else's players (HA!), you'll need three or four subscriptions to be able to view what is now still for free over the air or available all at once from DirecTV/DISH/cable.
Ugh... real player. If that is true then that is reason enough for me to stay away.
Real player doesnt seem to fit with the Goog's philosophy of small apps (Google Talk) or with ease of use.
i agree with post one.
NBA? CBS? RealPlayer???? Bad rumor or even worse business decision.
Yeah seriously, does anyone think that Real is even a player anymore?
Why in holy hell would Google align themselves with that platform?
And Microsoft announces that content from: TiVo(R), MTV, VH-1, and Major League Baseball will be available on their PMC like the Toshiba Gigabeat S series.
Look out AOL, MSN, and Yahoo... here comes the next ISP.
There is a Chinese saying: "Let mad dogs destroy each other!" This is an appropriate situation.
debunk the bunk...
Real + Google = best laugh today
Apple & Google partnership of some sort would finally rid the market of all the other garbage and give us only the best. In this field, other than iPod, there simply ain't nothing else.
Google and Real??? Right......
Sounds like a "planted" rumor to throw everyone off of the original rumor of a Google hardware announcement, be it Goolge Cubes, PCs or whatever. RealPlayer just doesn't sound like their style, and signing one network and one sports league doesn't sound like a coup to me.
With everyone else at CES focusing on getting video content into the living room and mobile devices, how does this Google video announcement get their partners' content where it needs to be?
Something doesn't add up on this one.
#6,
CBS is the #1 network in the US and it has the CSI franchise, the number 1 shows on TV (I am not a fan of them, but they have the most viewers)...
the NBA lost its appeal though (for me)
and Real Player BLOWS, so there are so bad business moves i guess, but i dont the CBS part is...
Surely google will create their own media player, one that can display ads and generate even more revenue for them?
So any word on pricing?
This doesn't make any sense and certainly not for Google. Something like a video movie store is not part of Google's identity. Focus is the key to success; when you start wandering into areas that you have no business in, you lose. History never fails.
#12
Apple & Google??
Oh hell no! Why would Google stoop so low?
Besides, I thought proprietary platforms is against
what Google is all about.
That's why it's laughable to hear rumours about Google and Real.
It would be the same thing with any kind of Apple association.
You damn iPod fanboys really want to kill all innovation, don't you - But ohhh, if it's Apple doing it that's ok, but if it's M$ or anyone else.. the world ends.
I hope Google beats them all, just to spite you Mac drones..
Please wait.. buffering.
Google hasn't learned from the dot.bomb have they. They went on a hiring and buying spree and are now over their heads in useless crap no one wants or needs. Imploding is fun!
#19. You are quite the idiot aren't you?
You're blasting Apple, when it was Apple that STARTED this whole digital music thing and changed the world. No other company in the world has been able to do that. All those other clowns attempt to steal from Apple an idea that IT MATERIALIZED INTO SUCCESS.
iTunes and iPod is the best 'legal' music experience hands down. Nothing comes even remotely close. Whatever Apple has done to protects ITS OWN service/product is 100% meritted and any other company would have done the same.
So please take your Apple envy and your lack of a clue and go play elsewhere. I hope Apple & Google actually do join forces to rid the market of the filth that pollutes it. Maybe that will force other companies to THINK and come up with something interesting rather than spend billions of dollars trying to leach off of someone else's success.
Yeah, um... no.
True:
Google: "Do no evil"
Real = Evil
Assert:
Google + Real = False
"Apple that STARTED this whole digital music thing "
Dude where were u when napster was alive. Apple is filling yall heads with more garbage than a landfill.
anywhos why is everyone so bashful against realplayer its is the one of the only media players i use and it works great. i tried others an dumped them in a jiffy.
realplayer if a great tool who else thinks less is a fool. nuff said..
"Apple that STARTED this whole digital music thing and changed the world."
No,it didn't. Only Apple lovers like to think so.
google obviously would use the google video player. We'll probably all end up using it because it'll probably rock once its an app and not just an online controller. Seesh. you people.
real and google? hmm..
#22
i think youre a little confused... apple did not start digital music.
i think youre a little confused... apple did not start digital music.
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before apple there was... napster(illegal).. so yea, Apple made it viable for business
I have had horrible experience w/ Real... Hate them in fact :)
#22, most of the Google products are not compatible w/ apples, why do you think? to keep you fanboyz happy?